A typical Micheal Bay movie with potential but without substance

Rating: 4/10 (1 April 2012)

The Story tells a future tale about a company, which offers the ability of being almost immortal. They clone their costumers and keep them as containers of organs. The company tells their clones that the world has been infected by a virus, and that they are the only survivors. But the third generation of clones are way smarter than the further ones, and they start to think about a life outside the decontamination-area. They doubt the whole system and the authenticity of the "Survivors". One clone, Lincoln Six Delta (Ewan Mcgregor) falls in love with another clone (Scarlett Johansen), and together they escape. Soon they want to meet their real role models, but Lincolns role model calls the Company and asks for help. Then, after a team of mercenaries chase Lincoln Six Delta, it comes to a misunderstanding, and they kill the real Lincoln. Six Delta could live with his girl in Lincolns place, but the company calls, and asks for a DNA donation, and Six Delta takes this chance to get into the 'Decontaminationarea' and he wants to release all the clones.
First of all its really fun to see grown people with a mentalstatus of a 15-year old, reading "Fun with Dick and Jane" out loud, and be really excited when they learn a new word like 'dude'. And then the development of questioning several things. It all starts at the beginning, where Lincoln Six Delta misses his shoe. He asks himself who could have taken his shoe, where does his clothes go, and why everyone have to wear the same clothes. Then Lincoln wants bacon for breakfast, but he isn't allowed to, and he don't understand it. At this point the Story have a kind of up building to a climax, but then the structure gets weird and uninteresting.
Michael Bay had this idea, which had a lot potential, but as always he raped it. There were great philosophical questions in it, a lot things to think about, but he really makes a dumb standard action movie. Every Michael Bay movie has badass guys with cool quotes, hot women and explosions.
So i see this movie more like a double feature. The first half is good, smart and builds up, but then it gets boring and totally predictable.
The good things in the movie were the beginning, the idea and Steve Buscemi, the bad things were the rest.
So to sum up, its a bad movie which could've been good, if someone else had directed it, or if it was never released.
#this review is dedicated to Mrs. Dollf.